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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: That is rather pedantic. What is the difference?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: They have been impugned. I know it was on a no-fault basis but I am not sure how many State boards have ever been removed. I do not know but there have not been many and those actions, by their nature, impact on the board.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: The Minister said he spoke to the interim chair who resigned in January. Why has he not spoken to the previous chair, who resigned last April?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: Will the Minister speak to the previous board members?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: The Minister said it is not normal for there to be five resignations from a board, which I agree with. It is not normal. It is unprecedented. It is hard to fathom why. The Minister seems to be putting the blame or stating that the board was obviously dysfunctional without seeking to find out why those board members resigned. There is a common denominator and it is not the board members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: What does the Minister mean by, "not having worked"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: I would suggest the Minister is correct in the mind of some people in his Department that the Bradley report did not work, in that it did not find something to put on the board members to get rid of them. In my view, that is why this was initiated. The Minister mentioned protected disclosures. I am not sure if there are protected disclosures or not. I made a disclosure, as did other...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: I am happy to come back and discuss things with the chief executive officer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: The Minister mentioned protected disclosures.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to make a further contribution. Does the Minister intend to publish the findings of the departmental report or investigation and will Mr. Neely and Mr. Barry be publishing their findings?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: Is there no timescale in respect of either of those?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: And again, what is the position in respect of the Department’s investigation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: Will they be making themselves available to discuss those reports subsequently?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: That is the case if it is a protected disclosure, I am advised that it is not but that it has been looked at under the protected disclosures process. The crux of the issue here is that the Minister has made the decision, as is his right under section 18, to discharge the duties of the remaining board members. This was presumably done on the advice of officials next to the Minister, and I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: None of this has benefited Inland Fisheries Ireland with respect to the organisation but there are resignations because of the way things are being done within its organisation. That is of concern to me. The board is gone-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: No, absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: The issue here is that the board has been dissolved but the individuals and management within Inland Fisheries Ireland, who have a very close working relationship, as they must, with the Minister’s departmental officials, are all there. Indeed, the Minister’s Department is investigating allegations in respect of Inland Fisheries Ireland even though it has a very close...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: This was for the board and not for the management.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: No, not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (7 Mar 2023)
Seán Kyne: I served within that Department and I know the close relationship. Of course there has to be one because it is a very small part of the Department.